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Old 10-13-2010 | 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by rodcpierce
piston looks fine to me. If your assuming its lean because there is no carbon on the piston, well, that just means he is running good fuel and not running the motor slobbering rich...
only 30% odonnell.

and it has been eating glow plugs, like 1 every 10 tanks or so

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Old 10-13-2010 | 08:18 PM
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Ohh just some FYI the Mach 427 is actually a .26! The 427 on the side is simply .427 cc which comes out to .26 ci ! but yeah I'm surprised it actually still ran with that pinch!
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Old 10-14-2010 | 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Jomo918
Ohh just some FYI the Mach 427 is actually a .26! The 427 on the side is simply .427 cc which comes out to .26 ci ! but yeah I'm surprised it actually still ran with that pinch!
good to know
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Old 10-14-2010 | 10:06 AM
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Hmm. I don't think that's right.

The piston has gone a little too far.

I think you need to get that fixed.

Time to get the sleeve pinched.

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Old 10-21-2010 | 12:10 PM
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got everything back, ray did an awesome job, the motor ran awesome also
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Old 10-21-2010 | 12:24 PM
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Very nice. Did you have to rebreak-in at all?
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Old 10-21-2010 | 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by quixoticboi
Very nice. Did you have to rebreak-in at all?
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